as above really. i am used to having to survive on a small amount,but really don't fancy beans on toast for the next 4 days or so.i do have some food already that i reckon will last for the next 3-4 days.just interested in what you can buy cheap,but not dull to eat.thanks 🙂
Good time of year to be doing a bit scrumping etc.
Spend a bit less on video games 🙂
Buy a Kazoo, a pen and piece of paper. Sit outside a train station looking sad and Kazooing "Always look on the bright side of life" In 10 mins you'll have a fiver, 20mins a tenner.
I recommend a curry with a couple of Cobra's
Find a Tesco that opens until late, go in about an hour before it shuts, buy reduced stock.
deadlydarcy 😳
Develop a smack habit. Fueled by theft and burglary like everyone else s. You won't feel the need to eat then
Beans on toast. 😆
Buy a Kazoo, a pen and piece of paper. Sit outside a train station looking sad and Kazooing "Always look on the bright side of life" In 10 mins you'll have a fiver, 20mins a tenner.
😆 What about a swanee whistle?
Restaurants, then do a runner.
Four hundred and four penny chews. That gives you 100 a day for 4 days, plus 4 left over to offer to guests when they pop round.
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Macdonalds
dhal and rice. v cheap. nutritious. tasty.
Boiled rice - serve with TommyK (or sauce of your choice)
Other student memories come flooding back
Smash with tinned sardines
White cabbage sandwiches
Sardines are good actually - loads of protein and cheap. I'll still sometimes get lunch for <£1 from Sainsbury's - small bagguette and tin of smelly fish
If you honestly had only that much for so long I reckon you are going to do little better than a bag of rice and something to use as flavouring. Limited on protein I'd have thought, maybe a bag of frozen veggie mince, chilli powder and chinese 5 spice powder to alternate meal taste. I bet it would be hard too do though. I shall investigate.
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Something like this.
Also a good time to get out in the countryside and find some blackberry bushes etc. Remember to only pick the ones that are above dog height though.
Got a farm shop nearby? One near us has BIG bags of spuds for a quid, tins of beans for 10p, big bags of bacon misshapes for a quid and loads more, four and a bit quid could go a long way
And metaphorically' Stay away from the Bolivian spinach chocolate........
A big bag of lentils, stock cubes and a couple of onions...
Crikey - since when has next Thursday been 4 days away? 62 penny chews a day with 6 left over for guests surely?
Bean chilli is amazing and so cheap
Spagbog meat free
Chicken wings!
A big bag of rice is a good place to start, that will bulk up most things.
Next you need something to add some taste so cheap sardines are a good idea as are chillis.
Finally you need to make some kind of sauce. Over ripe tomato's from the cheap aisle are a good, as is passatta (49p for 500ml in Aldi).
Then use whatever you have left to buy other flavours, again most likely picking off the reduced veg and meat.
Can you tell i've done this before?!?!
If you get yourself some amoebic disentry you'll be able to survive on sugared & salted water.
Develop a smack habit. Fueled by theft and burglary
You might even get a free house if you cry in court when your eventually caught 😉
[i]Crikey - since when has next Thursday been 4 days away? 62 penny chews a day with 6 left over for guests surely?[/i]
Yes, you're right, tired from riding, brain not engaged.
Five loaves of bread and a couple of fishes, perhaps?
4.40 you say.
Get some cheap mince couple of cans of tomatoes and one of beans make a base, have spag bol twice and chilli twice.
Five loaves of bread and a couple of fishes, perhaps?
Have you seen the price of cod lately?
big bag of pasta, make your own sauce (onion, 2 cans of tomatoes, chillis optional)
buy some tins of tuna
and alternate.
boring but will see you through.
Tesco (other supermarkets exist) Value noodles.
About 8-10p a packet, carbs, protein and fat, available in plenty of flavours too.
Downside they take about 3 minutes to cook, so you eat a lot of them and get fat.
big bag of rice.
big can of sweetcorn.
some tins of sardines in tomato sauce.
a bag of porridge for breaky.
4.40 you say.Get some cheap mince couple of cans of tomatoes and one of beans make a base, have spag bol twice and chilli twice.
And fast for the other 2 days...
Salad cream sandwiches or rice and brown sauce, always a student favourite!!
Have you seen the price of cod lately?
That would be an ecumenical matter, surely?
Right you are there, father.
10p bargains at your local Asda etc. 30mins before they close
Failing that, I may have a tip for the GGs for tomorrow
Food bank?
No, not looking at food in the supermarket then going home think about it later, alone, in the dark,...........
1 tin tomatoes 33p
1 tin tuna in brine - 75P?
1 large onion - 10P
Chop and fry up in a little oil
150 grams spaghetti (wholemeal is nice) - boil for 5 mins
Scoff - Sh*t
Repeat for 4 days
Or go to McDonnalds 5mins before closing and beg
EyeThangEwe
why is everyone only suggesting the OP eats every other day for the next week?
I'd buy loads of fresh veg from the greengrocer. Make several pans of soup, each soup having a potato base and different veggies to make different flavours. Freeze and that should keep you filled up for a few days.
why is everyone only suggesting the OP eats every other day for the next week?
Because he said Thursday was four days away.
A big bag of oats would sort you out a week's filling slow-release carb breakfasts.
Does he mean next Tuesday or Thursday? Not clear in the OP really.
If it was me it'd be beans on toast, value noodles and porridge.
4 cans of tesco value lager if I had owt left 🙂
Surely there are two possible ways to solve the problem. The first is being addressed by not overspending. What about the second solution of raising your income? Have you got anything to sell?
Good idea don
how about the OP puts suitably valued stuff on the classifieds and gets paid in a pizza order or whatever?
😛
What's your bike like? I might be willing to trade you a potato for it.
i can send you a tin of beans, £4.40 next day delivery.
If you come to Leeds and sort my headset out I'll cook you a chilli.
Otherwise, go to the most ethically diverse part of your local town, buy potatoes, rice, stock cubes, tins of kidney beans and fresh veg. Ethnic minorities (round here at least) tend to cook more, so basic ingredients are cheaper.
Also, buy bruised fruit from the market, brown bananas etc, through them into a blender for decent, often free smoothies.
apologies 😳 (i meant next thursday).some great tips there everyone 😀 don simon agree with you (just didn't want to sell anything if possible/but can sell some computer games as a last resort 😉
Pawnbroker?
got some lovely pig cheeks at waitrose last week, £3/kg, cheeky little meal
The old chequebook for great for this sort of thing.
A week before payday it used to get a propper spanking when I was skint 🙂
oh, how things have changed in the last ten years. Cant remember the last time I even saw my chequebook.
Anyway, back to the problem.
£2 worth of chicken brest from Tesco.
Eat it raw and spend the next week shitting your life away or in bed shivering.
I bet you wont want to eat, so no need to worry 🙂 .
( you could invest the remaing £2 in a couple of lotto tickets )
Eat it raw and spend the next week shitting your life away or in bed shivering.
😆
One value bag of pasta, one value bag of rice. 8 value tins of tomatoes, a bag of onions, about 2kg of beef mince. If you have money left over, mayb 12 eggs and a couple of cheap loaves of bread
From this you can make: spag bol, chili, meatballs, and variations thereof. Omelette, scrambled egg on toast, boiled egg, poached egg, eggy bread.
This is a "spot who used to be a student" contest, isn't it.
4 cans of Kestrel Super. At least you'll have one good night.
Where are you OP?
2 things
My missus says you can eat here if you're anywhere near Darlington - soft or what?
get some gardening done this weekend for neighbours for a bit of cash, get a card in newsagents now and see if you can pick up a days work - should be good for £25 or so
[url=http://]nullPost yer paypal address and some kind soul will sort you out til pay day
how can you convert a PayPal balance into hard cash in time though?
Pay with chip and pin or cheque
how can you convert a PayPal balance into hard cash in time though?
ive got a card thats linked to my paypal account and can spend my balance at any time
i think im in a pilot scheme, i had the old paypal topup card
never used this one though
he could also order dominos with a paypal balance
Sign up for Match.com and buy a box of condoms.
Arrange a date every night with some of the least attractive and most desperate looking women you can find.
After the meal, it't the Aussie Haka (pat pockets, look concerned, oh no I seem to have lost my wallet).
Woman pays, you eat well, hell you might even get a bed for the night and a shower and save on electricity too. All it will cost you is a significant chunk of your self-respect.
Play your cards right, you might even get breakfast too.
thanks again everyone for the suggestions and kind offers of food.i can assure you that i will be ok (it's my fault that i slightly overspent 😳 i can definitely survive though 😀 it's heart warming to see all the kind people on here though (not that i didn't think you weren't kind people 😉 thanks again 😀
if you are near leeds, you are more than welcome to come to mine for a meal on night next week mate. 😀
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He's way on down south, wiltshire way.
Wiltshire? Can't he just forage for nuts and berries like everyone else?
I think we should stop offering to feed people for free, other wise who knows what sort of people this forum will attract.
WTD: Spare change etc.
😀
How much will you pay him to eat your nuts then Cougar?
who knows what sort of people this forum will attract
The horse has bolted! Quick, close all the gates!!
How much will you pay him to eat your nuts then Cougar?
You make him sound like syphilis.
WTD: Spare change etc.
oh, we've had that before and a few of us were taken in
Can't remember his name though
go foraging, plenty of road kill pheasants about this time of year, lots of corn about ready to pick, blackberries, sloes, etc.
One value bag of pasta, one value bag of rice. 8 value tins of tomatoes, a bag of onions, about 2kg of beef mince. If you have money left over, mayb 12 eggs and a couple of cheap loaves of bread
you haven't been poor for a while have you..?
times have changed man.. you'd be lucky to get half your mince for £4.40 these days man..
OP - property is theft man.. possession is nine tenths of the law.. 😉
Free dinner in glasgow if you want it.
When I was in nurses residence and skint I survived on a cheap
Kilo bag of muesli and slabs of eu surplus tinned stewed steak that a mates gran sent him down from
Orkney.. Mmmmmm!